Antonio Lopez-Bautista was transferred to County Jail after his first day on trial after being accused to try to rape and kidnap a 67 year-old woman last May in Saratoga Springs near the West Side Stadium.Photo Erica Miller 5/21/13 news_LopezBautista_Wed

BALLSTON SPA -- Tuesday marked the start of the trial of Antonio Lopez-Bautista, the man accused of the attempted rape and kidnapping of a 67-year-old woman as she waited in a parked vehicle for her husband in the early morning hours of May 22, 2012.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the brutal attack, caught on surveillance cameras. The video was played Tuesday in court.

Taking the stand Tuesday was David Harmon, owner of both the Stadium Café and West Side Stadium Café in Saratoga Springs, for whom the victim's husband worked for roughly nine years, first as a dishwasher and then as a cleaning person.

Harmon said that in the early morning hours, after the restaurants had closed, the victim's husband would clean and prepare the cafés for a fresh day of business. Typically, he cleaned the café on Broadway first and then would head to the eatery on Congress Street.

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Because the man no longer operates a vehicle, his wife, the alleged victim in this case, was his driver, Harmon said.

Assistant Saratoga County District Attorney Michele Schettino said that as the couple's white Toyota pickup truck pulled into the parking lot between Legends and the café, they had no idea Lopez-Bautista was hiding nearby, taking cover behind a shrub.

Surveillance video shown in court Tuesday replayed the scene from that morning: Moments before the couple drove down Congress Street and parked in the lot, a man Schettino identified in court as Lopez-Bautista is seen on video ambling down the middle of the street, in a white T-shirt and jeans. Then, he hides.

The victim parks the truck, and her husband climbs out. He spends a few minutes retrieving trash from the back of the truck and carrying it to the dumpster. He heads inside the café to disable the alarm system and turn on the lights before bringing his wife inside.

The video shows that once the husband is inside, the stranger behind the bush comes out of hiding and quickly approaches the truck. He yanks open the driver's-side door and rips his victim out, landing a rapid succession of blows on the woman, who is shown clinging to the truck.

In the video, the woman grips her seat belt as her assailant pulls her out of the vehicle, but it only anchors her momentarily before she is on the ground, being dragged out of the parking lot.

She is dragged momentarily out of view of the surveillance cameras; then, the two reappear in another quadrant of the footage -- a viewpoint from another camera -- that is less clear.

The man in the video drags his victim onto the sidewalk of Congress Street, toward Broadway, and stands over her while stretching out his arms, as wide as they will go, before lowering himself over her.

After that, the struggle blends into the sidewalk until a halo of police lights illuminates the scene and the attacker sprints away.

The assault lasted

3-1/2 minutes.

Schettino said that when police arrived at the scene, the victim was almost entirely without her clothes, bloodied and beaten. Not long after the attack, Schettino said police located and arrested Lopez-Bautista, who had been hiding in a wooded corner of the parking lot.

Called to the stand Tuesday were two nearby residents who said they heard the victim's screams and called 911.

One witness was, at the time, living in a second-floor apartment above Legends Café with three windows overlooking the parking lot where the attack originated. The other witness was located in a first-floor apartment on the corner of Congress and East Beekman streets.

The witness living above Legends Café on Tuesday told the jury the woman's screams woke him from his sleep. As he talked with the 911 dispatcher, he said he watched as the woman, who was familiar to him, was yanked from her car, dragged up the street and beaten until police arrived. It was too dark to make out the attacker's facial features, he said. However, he said he saw what appeared to be articles of clothing being taken from the victim and thrown over a fence into the parking lot.

The second witness said he, too, watched the victim being beaten and dragged up the sidewalk by her hair.

He said the victim kept telling her assailant to take her money instead, in between screams for help.

Lopez-Bautista was indicted by a grand jury on nine counts stemming from the attack, including second-degree attempted kidnapping, first-degree attempted rape, first-degree assault and first-degree sexual abuse, all felonies.

In the upcoming days of the trial, which continues today, the jury will hear from law enforcement officials who responded to the attack, medical professionals who treated the victim and, ultimately, the victim herself.